Intelligence and religiousness in OKCupid dataset

Miron Zuckerman is updating his meta-analysis of the religion and intelligence relationship, and asked me to compute some extra analyses of the OKCupid dataset. Results: http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/intell_religion_OKCupid Main findings Cognitive ability…

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How much should you trust IQ etc. information from The Guardian? Experts answer: not so much

There's an interesting slide in Rindermann's survey: Rindermann, H. (2013). 2013 survey of expert opinion on intelligence. International Society for Intelligence Research, ISIR 2013 List of surveys here James Thompson's…

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Standard deviation of total SAT scores: not simply the sum of the standard deviations of subtests

Someone on Reddit for SlateStarCodex: AFAIK, SATs are normed to mean of 500 per section and standard deviation of 100. Assuming that math and verbal are highly correlated, that approximates…

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